Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER
In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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